Jacob bloom yeagley



(No Model.)

J. B. YEAGLEY.

HYDRAULIC RAM.

Paten-ted May 6, 1884.

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ATENT JACOB BLOOM YEAGLEY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

HYDRAULIC RAM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,262, dated May 6, 1884.

Application filed October 20, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, JACOB BLooM YEAGLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hydraulic Rams or apparatus for raising water from wells having water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. A

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hydraulic rams or apparatus for raising water from wells having water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, and more particularly to improvements upon my former patent, dated September 25, 1883, and numbered 285,774, and relating more especially to improvements inthe manner of the construction of some of the parts, and adapting the apparatus for the distribution of water, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a vertical section through my improved apparatus after it has been placed in the desired stratum; Fig. 2, an enlarged vertical section through my improved apparatus; Fig. 3, an enlarged detached view of the upper and lower parts,which form the efuX fountain-pipe and the connections between the efflux valved chamber, valved air-chamber, and influx and supply pipes; liig.V 4, a detached view of the water-distributer.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several gures.

In the drawings, A and B represent two cast and grooved upper and lower parts or plates connected together by screws or bolts, with a suitable water-tight packing between their meeting faces.' These grooved parts or plates have an interior groove, which forms the efflux fountainpipe D, and also the parts to which the influx fountain-pipe C, efflux valved chamber E, valved air-chamber F, and supply-tube G are connected by any suitable 5o screws or bolts. The parts A and B may be cast in one piece. Through the bottom of lower part, B, is an opening, b, communicating with the groove b, that connects the valved air-chamber F with the supply-tube G. The opening b is closed by a screw or other suitable plug or stop-cock attachment, b2; and the object of said opening b is to drain out any sand or sediment that may gather in said groove b and valved air-chamber, by simply removing screw-plug, or opening stop-cock b2, when the water in supply-pipe G will run out, and at the same time the sand and sediment will-,be washed out of the groove b and valved air-chamber. The valve e in effluxchamber E is shaped like an inverted saucer, with openings or slots e in sides to let water .flow through; and on outside'edges', below and between each slot e', there is a small half-round opening, e2, to wash out the sand or sediment that may accumulate therein. This valve plays freely inthe efflux-chamber E, the openings letting through sufficient water to give the required velocity of the water-flow, and consequent required resulting momentum of the water. The wire chain or cord H has a weight, h, (like the old-fashioned steelyard weight,) connected to it about five or six inches above its connection with the valve-stem, so that the apparatus is stopped by taking wire chain or cord in hand and, by lifting, close efdux cylinder or chamber by valve e, when the waterpressure on bottom of efflux-chamber valve e will hold it closed. Then the supply-pipe drainer 2 2 may be opened, if required, to prevent freezing of the water in said supply-pipe. The apparatus is again set in motion by drop- 'ping the weight h on valve-stem, by means of wire chain or cord H, to push valve down, when the water will instantly begin to flow from the efflux valved chamber E, thus setting the apparatus in automatic operation. The weight h is then raised (by means of wire chain or cord) just high enough, so as not to interfere with the valve-stem in its automatic I upward and downward motion. pipe drainer 2 2 is then closed.

I represents a hydraulic distributer, to be screwed on supply-pipe G at the point g, and has a number of short tubes, t', provided with top-cocks i; and by means of pipes or hose The supply- IOO connected to said tubes the water can be forced to any desired place by opening that one needed and closing the others.

By connecting any of the hose or pipes with a or to a turbine or any water-inotor wheel, there may be run not only light biitlieavy machinery iii proportion to the size of my apparatus.

- Construction and operation of my improved apparatus: Iii Fig. lis shown a dug well into the first sand and gravel or any other waterbea-ring stratum, Y, giving a low water-rise and good drainage, the water rising in well to the height Y Y. The iiiliux fountain pipe or tube C is now driven or sunk by boring or drilling through the clay stratum Z, or other stratum or strata impervious to water, into the second or any other water-bearing stratum, IV XV, giving the required hydrostatic rise iii fountaiii-pipe C above the water-rise in the well employed as a drain of the wastewater from the apparatus. The fountain-pipe C may or may not be perforated at its lower end, termiiiating in cavity K, which cavity may usually be formed by pumping out the finer sand before the apparatus is screwed on pipe C. rlhis pipe G, as also supply-pipe G, eliux valved chamber E, and valved air-chamberF, should then be connected to the connected u pper and lower parts, A and B. rlhe water will nowtlow l'i'oni pipe Gthrongli efflux-opening D by hydrostatic pressure, attempting to reach the hydrostatic equilibrium of the fountain head water supplying the stratum in which the fountain-pipe C terminates at its .lower end. Xowgwhen the water has attained its greatest velocit-y through pipes GD,in seeking its hydrostatic level, the valve c will close the eiiiuX-chamber E instantly, by being carried up bythe current, and, by the sudden stoppage of ilow, water will be forced into the air-cliaiiibcr, forcing up the valve f, which opens upward. The aperture through the bottom of air-eliaiiiber closed by said valve should be pei'pendicularly over and nearly as large in area as the upper opening of the fountainpipe O, iii order to obtain the greatest possible beneficial results, as shown by my experiments with this apparatus. Then the current through pipe or opening D carries up the etiuxvalve c, closing the clihix chamber or cylinder E, causing a sudden stoppage of iow through said chamber or cylinder, the water, by force of its momentum in fountain-pipe C, has its greatest pressure against and beneath the aircliamber valve j', because it is in direct line with the flow of the water in and through the fountaiii-pipe G, even drawing a portion of the water out of pipe D and efflux valved cham ber E, below the efliux-valve c, when closing said eiilux-ehambcr, caused by the rapid vclocity of the water in fountain-pipe C, entering air-chamber. Thus it will be seen that the efflux-valve c does not fall wholly by its own weight or specific gravity, but partly by the suction or partial vacuum formed in pipe D and etlluX-(i'hamber Il, below the valve c. rlhe ilow having thus expended its effective force or momentum against the resistance of the condensed valved air-chamber, the water will again now through pipe or opening D and efflux-chamber E, when the valve c will again close the aperture of the etlluX-cliamber E when the iiow has atta-ined its greatest velocity, which is almost instantly, as the flow is in reality perpendicular, while the reaction, at the saine time, cannot cause the water to throw itself back upon the reservoir, because said reservoir is full and curbed beneath pervious and impervious strata. By these successive impulses, caused by the velocity of flow and momentum ol' the water, as above described, water is forced automatically in a steady stream through the supply-pipe Gr by the aid of the air-chamber, otherwise, without the air-chamber, the water would issue `from supply-pipe G spasmodically at each pulsation of the valve c iu the ethnic-chamber E, which pulsations have but little variations in the same apparatus attached to the same fomitain-pipe C.

X X represent a suppositional height to which the water rises from the cavity K. Any two water-bearing strata, whether first and second, first and third, second and third, or first and fourth, second and fourth, or any other combination of water-bearing strata (separated by a stratum or strata impervious to water) giving the greatest difference of hydrostatic levels, are employed. A difference as low as two and one-half feet will automatically operate my improved apparatus successfully for ordinary purposes. Y'Vliere any one of above-specified water-bearing stratum, or any other farther down, gives an Artesian flow sufficiently high above the surface of the ground, then the apparatus may be screwed on Artesian-fountain pipe and the surface of the ground employed to drain oif the waste water from the apparatus where water is required to be raised higher than the Artesiaiifountain flow.

I have demonstrated, recently, that a difference of hydrostatic levels of from five to fifteen feet can be invariably found in this city and adjacent country between the rise, in a dug well, into first water-bearing stratum and the rise from the second water-bearing stratum, when tubed through the water-rise in the dug well by means of the fountain-pipe C, and wonderful results of power obtained with my improved apparatus by actual public demonstration,as above stated. The geological stratification of the earths crust is such as to almost invariably find in any locality a difference of hydrostatic levels iii the water-bearing strata niiderlying the earths surface, as explained above, to operate my improved apparatus.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a hydraulic rain or apparatus for rais- IOO IIO

ing Water from Wells having Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, the coinbination, with aniiniiux fountain-pipe, C, of the two-part castings A B, having a pipe, D, groove b, efux -valved chamber E, and valved air-chamber F, said parts adapted to connect tWo Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, substantially as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

2. In a hydraulic ram or apparatus for raising Water from Wells having Water-bearing strata of ydifferent hydrostatic levels, the combination, With an influx fountain-pipe, C, of the parts A and B, having a pipe, D, the efflux valved chamber E, valved air-chamber F, and supply-pipe G, adapted to communicate With air-chamber, and all arranged to connect two Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, substantially as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

I 3. In ahydraulic ram or apparatus for raising Water from Wells having Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, the combination, with an efflux-chamber, E, an airchamber adapted to connect pipes O D, and the supply-pipe G, of the parts A and B, provided With groove b, opening b', and plug or stop-cock attachment b, substantially as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

4. In a hydraulic ram or apparatus for raising Water from Wells having Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, the combination, with a valved air-chamber and influx and efflux pipes, of the efuX-chamber E, having an inverted saucer-shaped valve, e, having the two series of openings e e2, substantially1 as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

6. Ina hydraulic ram or apparatus for raising` Water from Wells having Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, the combination of an influx fountain-pipe, an efflux fountain-pipe, vsaid tWo pipes adapted to connect two (2) Water-bearing strata of different hydrostatic levels, intermediate valved airchamber, efliux valved chamber, supply-pipe, and drainer 2 2, and a Water-distributer hav ing aseries of pipes controlled by stop-cocks,

substantially as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

7. 'Ihe combination of an Artesiau-fountain pipe, an` efflux fountain-pipe with an efflux valved chamber, intermediate valved airchalnber adapted to connect efflux fountain pipe and Artesian-fountain-pipe, and the supply-pipe G and parts A and B, provided Wlth groove b and plug or stop-cock attachment If, substantially as and for the purposes herein specified. a

In testimony whereof I afx my signature 1n presence of two witnesses.

`JACOB lBLooM YEAGLEY.

Witnesses:

THOMAS ATKiNsoN, C. C. GLAss. 

